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Old 04-09-2014, 08:05 AM  
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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil View Post
How did you know it needed a new chain? Most cars when they the chain breaks/stretches (extremely rare) or a belt snaps the valves come into contact with the piston.
Most likely it was a CEL that came on, or the chain started to get noisy. Because I think most modern engines are interference, you'd never want to skip the maintenance schedule on a belt. I've always automatically done mine at 100k/160k
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